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I haven't seen movies from hardly any of these people. I'd like to hear what directors you love, or you want to check out. Here's some of mine:

Luis Buñuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel

Vittorio De Sica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica

Federico Fellini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellini

Pier Paolo Pasolini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasolini

François Roland Truffaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffaut

<3

Good lord, Eurotrash up in here.

'merican:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rappaport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveh_Zahedi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Dorsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burnett_(director )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Friedrich


Euro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Straub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tscherkassky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoros_Angelopoulos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kieslowski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bava

Japanese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Mizoguchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Tsukamoto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dhei_Imamura

thx phi :)

yeah those were just recommended to me to check out -- i don't know what i'm saying :]

Pasolini is a-ok in my book, though. Can't go wrong with him.

I'm more partial to American directors anyway, so ignore me all you want about European directors.

I am fond of:

- Deepa Mehta director of the films Fire, Earth, and Water. all beautiful, thoughtful, controversial
- Darren Aronofsky director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler (already discussed in this thread)
- Tarsem Singh director of The Cell and The Fall. both aesthetically stunning films, though the latter plot line left something to be desired.
- Tom Tykwer director of Run Lola Run and (more importantly!!!) The Princess and the Warrior. I love his style. I love his music choices. I love his star actress!

These aren't in any order :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Linklater is pretty good.

Yeah, I've seen at least three of his...

Ingmar Bergman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman

i saw a movie last night i thought i hadn't seen before, and then it all came back. persona. thank you bergman!

Ahhhh, the one good Bergman film! Good choice, dp!

Man, I still love Shinya Tsukamoto

Y'all need to check out his stuff.

Which one in particular?

Tetsuo, Vital, and Gemini are some of his best works, IMO. Tetsuo II not so much, unfortunately.